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JLH. BURLIGH. CLOTHES .LINE HANGER.

(No Model.)

Patented Oct. 27,- 1896.

AT TUH/VEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB I-I. BURLIOI-I, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-LINE HANGER.

SPEIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 570,377', dated October 27', 1896.

Application filed July 7, 1896. Serial No. 598,335. (No model.) i

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB H. BURLICH, of New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Olothes-Line l-Ianger, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved clothes-line hanger arranged to permit the user to conveniently hang the clothes on an endless clothes-line within the room and then move the line with the clothes out into the yard for drying purposes. In attaining this end I employ an arm pivoted to a window-casing or like support and carrying on its free end a pulley over which passes the clothes-line and a lockinglever for locking the said arm in position, the said lever forminga guide for the clothesline.

The invention will be fully described hereinafter, and defined in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the gures.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improvement as applied in position for hanging the clothes 4on the line. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same with the arm in a vertical position. Fig. 3 is an elevation at a right angle to that shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a plan View of the same.

The improved clothes-line hanger is provided with a suitably-constructed bracket A, secured to the window-casing, preferably at the shutter-stop B, as plainly illustrated in the drawings. On the bracket A is held a pivot O for an arm D, mounted to swing into the room to assume a horizontal position, as illustrated in Fig. l, or to swing into a vertical position over the face of the stop B, that is, outside of the window, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3.

The arm D is preferably made of a piece of angle-iron, and in its free end is journaled a pulley E, over which passes the clothesline F, adapted to carry on its lower run F the clothes to be dried out in the yard.

The tworuns F and F2 of the clothes-line are adapted to be both passed over a pulley G', journaled in a fork G2, formed on the top of a lever G, fulcrumed at G3 on the bracket .the pulley G alongside lthe run F2.

A and extending at right angles to the arm D. The lever G is adapted to engage notches D and D2, formed in the arm D at one side and at its end, as plainly illustrated in the drawings, soas to lock the said arm in either a horizontal or vertical position.

Now when it is desired to use the clothesline hanger then the arm D, which is normally in a vertical position, is swung into the in- 6o side of the room and into a horizontal position, with the lever G engaging the notch D', so as to lock the said lever in the said position.

The upper run F2 of the clothes-line is left in engagement with the pulley G', while the 65 lower run Fl is removed from the said pulley and left to hang free, as plainly indicated in Fig. l, to' permit the user to readily hang the clothes on the said lower run. When this is done, then the clothes-line is pulled in 7o the usual manner to draw that portion of the run F containing the clothes out into the yard, the line being filled in this manner with clothes until the line is full. Then the lower run F of the clothes-line is again rested upon When this has been done, then the operator lifts the lever G to unlock the arm D and to swing the same downward into the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3. When the arm D moves to 8o this position, then the lever G engages the notch D2, so as to again lock the arm in place in this vertical position. The window may now be closed and the clothes left to dry untilit is desired to remove the dried clothes, when it is necessary to raise the window and to lift thelever G, so as to permit of swinging the arm D back into its former horizontal po sition. When this is done, the lower run F' is lifted out of the pulley G and the clothes- 9o line is pulled in the opposite direction to bring the dried clothes back into the room for removal.

Now it is evident that by the arrangement described the strain on the runs F and F2 by 95 the weight of the clothes is always in the longitudinal direction of the arm D, no matter whether the latter is in a horizontal or a vertical position. It will further be seen that the device is very simple and durable in conroo struction, can be readily manipulated, and is not liable to get out of order.

Having thus described iny invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A clothes-line hanger, comprising an arni adapted to be pivoted to a suitable support and carrying at its free end a pulley, the said arm being provided at its fulcruln end with notches, and a locking-lever adapted to engage the said notches to lock the lever in a horizontal or vertical position, the said lever also forming a guide for the clothes-line passing over the said pulley, substantially as shown and described.

2. A clothes -line hanger, comprising a bracket adapted to be fastened to a support, an arm pivoted on the said bracket and carrying at its free end a pulley for the clotl1esline, the said arm being provided at its fulcrum end with notches, a lever pivoted on JACOB IVI. BURLICH.

Vitnesses:

J. FRED ACKER, J AMES M. HENLEY. 

